Fiona Rennie
emergency planner
Organised; plans fail, adaptable plans survive
Blackout
A storm leaves the village without power, heating or mobile signal for seven days.
Planned · not started yet
Civic life & public services Belonging Hard choices Small town Tense Warm
The premise
A storm leaves the village without power, heating or mobile signal for seven days. Rajesh organises his neighbours while learning what makes households and communities resilient, and an elderly neighbour’s emergency tests every plan.
The protagonist
Rajesh Patel-Owen — Retired logistics manager coordinating his village through a week-long winter power cut
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Abdul Hakim
disaster-relief coordinator
Experienced; volunteer safety first
Gerry Lomax
logistics expert
Practical; supply chains break first
How the story moves
Seven days without power, told day by day; the village’s improvised network survives a crisis and becomes a permanent community plan.
What readers take away
- Building a household emergency kit
- Staying warm safely
- Carbon-monoxide risks from generators and stoves
- Food and water safety without power
- Checking on vulnerable neighbours
- Community emergency plans
- Communicating without mobile signal
- Recovering after an emergency
- Plan for medicines and power-dependent equipment
- Use a battery radio and community alerts
- Safely use generators
- Plan community warm spaces
The books
- 1The storm Planned
- 2Day four Planned
- 3Restored Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.